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<h2>THE BLOODWASHED PILGRIM</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.&#8221; Daniel 3:25</h3></p>
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<p>I saw a blood washed pilgrim, a sinner saved by grace,<br>
Upon the King&#8217;s highway, with peaceful, shining face;<br>
Temptations sore beset him, but nothing could afright;<br>
He said, &#8220;The yoke is easy, the burden, it is light.&#8221;</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
<p class="refrain">Then palms of victory, crowns of glory,<br>
Palms of victory I shall wear.</p>
<p>I saw him in the furnace; he doubted not, nor feared,<br>
And in the flames beside him, the Son of God appeared;<br>
Though seven times &#8217;twas heated, with all the tempter&#8217;s might,<br>
He cried, &#8220;The yoke is easy, the burden, it is light.&#8221;</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
<p>&#8217;Mid storms, and clouds, and trials, in prison, at the stake,<br>
He leaped for joy, rejoicing, &#8217;twas all for Jesus&#8217; sake;<br>
That God should count him worthy, was such supreme delight,<br>
He cried, &#8220;The yoke is easy, the burden, is so light.&#8221;</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
<p>I saw him overcoming, through all the swelling strife,<br>
Until he crossed the threshold of God&#8217;s eternal life;<br>
The crown, the throne, the scepter, the name, the stone so white,<br>
Were his, who found, in Jesus, the yoke and burden light.</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<h1><a name="deliverance"></a>DELIVERANCE WILL COME</h1>
<p class="just">The following lyrics appear in <em>Gospel Hymns, Consolidated, Embracing Volumes No. 1, 2, 3 and 4, Without Duplicates</em> (Biglow &amp; Main: 1883), where they are attributed to John B. Matthias, 1836. Based on the parallel theme and identical refrain, they seem closely related to &#8220;The Bloodwashed Pilgrim.&#8221;</p>
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<p>I saw a wayworn traveler, in tattered garments clad,<br>
And struggling up the mountain, it seemed that he was sad;<br>
His back was laden heavy, his strength was almost gone,<br>
Yet he shouted as he journeyed, &#8220;Deliverance will come!&#8221;</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
<p class="refrain">Then palms of victory, crowns of glory,<br>
Palms of victory I shall wear.</p>
<p>The summer sun was shining, the sweat was on his brow,<br>
His garments worn and dusty, his step seemed very slow;<br>
But he kept pressing onward, for he was wending home,<br>
Still shouting as he journeyed, &#8220;Deliverance will come!&#8221;</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
<p>The songsters in the arbor that stood beside the way<br>
Attracted his attention, inviting his delay:<br>
His watchword being &#8220;Onward!&#8221; he stopped his ears and ran,<br>
Still shouting as he journeyed, &#8220;Deliverance will come!&#8221;</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
<p>I saw him in the evening; the sun was bending low;<br>
He&#8217;d overtopped the mountain, and reached the vale below:<br>
He saw the Golden City&#8212;his everlasting home&#8212;<br>
And shouted loud, &#8220;Hosanna! Deliverance will come!&#8221;</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
<p>While gazing on that city, just o&#8217;er the narrow flood,<br>
A band of holy angels came from the throne of God;<br>
They bore him on their pinions safe o&#8217;er the dashing foam,<br>
And joined him in his triumph: Deliverance had come!</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
<p>I heard the song of triumph they sang upon that shore,<br>
Saying, &#8220;Jesus has redeemed us to suffer nevermore!&#8221;<br>
Then casting his eyes backward on the race which he had run,<br>
He shouted loud, &#8220;Hosanna! Deliverance has come!&#8221;</p>
<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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